[lsb-discuss] Info: interfaces being removed in POSIX

[Nick Stoughton]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 07:52 -0700, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> As a data point for those who aren't closely following
> the POSIX revision process, these items are currently
> scheduled for removal from the next revision, which
> would be out late 2007 or early 2008:
> 

The basic rule is "If it was marked as obsolete in the old revision,
then we have given 5 years notice that we plan to remove this interface
from the standard soon". 

The exception to this is utimes(), which was marked as obsolete last
time, but will be re-promoted (i.e. un-obsoleted) at this revision.

For any of these that are NOT marked as obsolete in the LSB, we should
do so now (so we  can remove them in 5 years time too). We should also
make arrangements to be able to pick up the text describing them from
POSIX to move into the LSB.

> getcontext, makecontext, setcontext, swapcontext
> gethostbyaddr, gethostbyname
> h_errno
> pthread_attr_getstackaddr, pthread_attr_setstackaddr
> scalb
> ualarm, usleep
> vfork
> 
> bcmp, bcopy, bzero, index, rindex
> ecvt, fcvt, gcvt, fcvt
> ftime
> getwd
> mktemp
> wcswcs
> 
> And the header ucontext.h
> 
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